New Year's Eve celebrations around the world: live
Fireworks, party poppers and champagne at the ready: join us as we celebrate New Year's Eve celebrations around the world.
• Australia welcomes in the New Year
• Revellers around the world prepare to celebrate the start of 2013
• India's army cancels New Year celebrations in remembrance of gang-rape victim
• Britain expects washout New Year as flooding countinues
• Record turnout expected for Hogmanay in Edinburgh
• Revellers around the world prepare to celebrate the start of 2013
• India's army cancels New Year celebrations in remembrance of gang-rape victim
• Britain expects washout New Year as flooding countinues
• Record turnout expected for Hogmanay in Edinburgh
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13.30 Spectacular scenes across Sydney's famous Harbour
(Getty)
13.29 2013 will ring in the changes in very different ways around the
world. Hung-over Russians will wake up to a "new and troubling reality"
on New Year's Day, when beer becomes classified as an alcoholic drink for
the very first time, reports Tom Parfitt in Moscow. Read the full story here.
13.19 Fireworks explode over Sydney Harbour as it turns midnight
(Reuters)
13.05 Lasers light up the sky above Victoria harbour in Hong Kong
(Getty)
13.04 Our Moscow correspondent, Tom Parftt, reports that Russian revellers are expected to gather in Red Square, where there will be a firework display over the Kremlin later. He writes: "In Moscow, where snow is falling as the temperature hovers around -7C, shoppers are making their last desperate purchases before rushing home to their families. New Year is a more important event for Russians than Christmas – a low-key event marked on January 7 according to the pre-revolutionary Julian calendar – and gifts are put under a tree on December 31st, just as they are in the West on December 25th."
12.49 Kylie Minogue was clearly getting into the New Year spirit when she tweeted this photo of her in Sydney earlier:
12.48 Take a brolly if you are seeing in the New Year outdoors in Britain tonight. Forecasters are warning that the UK's celebrations will be dampened by a continuation of the downpours that have soaked the country over the festive season. Many parts of England, Wales and Scotland remain under flood alerts, and some areas are expected to see as much as 33mm (1.3ins) of rain falling today. However, the start of 2013 is set to bring better news, as the weeks of heavy rain give way to cloud, dull skies and light showers.
12.40 Dancers take part in parade in Bali, Indonesia
(EPA)
12.31 Indian revellers celebrate in Amritsar
(Getty)
12.20 In Sydney crowds are gathering for traditionally one of the most spectacular New Year's Eve fireworks displays anywhere in the world. Lord Mayor Clover Moore said about 1.5 million spectators are expected . Those in place already include Melissa Sjostedt who has made the journey from Florida to see the festivities which she first read about a decade ago in National Geographic magazine.
12.05 Meanwhile Malcolm Moore, our Beijing correspondent, reminds us that the Chinese New Year - when the Year of the Dragon gives way to the Year of the Snake - takes place on February 9. Those who want to celebrate the western calendar are having to dig deep with the city's finest restaurants offering special menus at up to £150 a head.
12.00 Special cause for celebration at Myanmar - or Burma to you and me - where the country will see in the New Year with a grand fireworks display in a celebration unprecedented in the former military-ruled country.
Thousands were expected to attend the celebration at a large field in Yangon against the backdrop of the city's famed Shwedagon Pagoda, where the Myanmar public will get its chance to do what much of the world does every New Year's Eve.
Preparations for Myanmar's New Year celebrations (Reuters)
11.56 People take part in the celebrations under the Harbour Bridge
(Getty)
11.50 Celebrations are already underway in Sydney, where fireworks are lighting up the city's skyline for the 9pm family show
(Reuters)
11.30 In Pakistan Rob Crilly, our correspondent reports, the celebrations are being held amid tight security. He adds: "Pakistanis are sending their 2013 text message greetings several hours early in case the country's mobile phone networks are turned off later to prevent mobile phones being used to detonate bombs.
11.15 The Indian armed forces on Monday cancelled their New Year celebrations while many hotels and bars scaled back parties in the wake of the gang-rape which has shocked the nation.
The Indian army, air force and navy have decided to cancel all the parties
planned to welcome the new year. They want to dedicate the last day of the
year to the gang-rape victim," a senior defence ministry official told
AFP.
In the capital, where the horrific crime took place on December 16, leading private members' club Gymkhana, where top officials and ministers are often seen, cancelled its party as did the Press Club in the capital.
The five-star Ashoka hotel in New Delhi also closed its popular nightclub, while other bar owners were quoted in the media as saying they were scaling back festivities.
A student prays during a vigil in Ahmedabad (Reuters)
11.10 In Auckland the celebrations are well underway with Kiwis being serenaded by "Legendary New Zealand funk rockers Supergroove" - no I haven't heard of them either.
11.00 Welcome to the Telegraph's Live Blog as we brace ourselves for 2013.
Athens Greece
13.19 Fireworks explode over Sydney Harbour as it turns midnight
(Reuters)
13.05 Lasers light up the sky above Victoria harbour in Hong Kong
(Getty)
13.04 Our Moscow correspondent, Tom Parftt, reports that Russian revellers are expected to gather in Red Square, where there will be a firework display over the Kremlin later. He writes: "In Moscow, where snow is falling as the temperature hovers around -7C, shoppers are making their last desperate purchases before rushing home to their families. New Year is a more important event for Russians than Christmas – a low-key event marked on January 7 according to the pre-revolutionary Julian calendar – and gifts are put under a tree on December 31st, just as they are in the West on December 25th."
12.49 Kylie Minogue was clearly getting into the New Year spirit when she tweeted this photo of her in Sydney earlier:
12.48 Take a brolly if you are seeing in the New Year outdoors in Britain tonight. Forecasters are warning that the UK's celebrations will be dampened by a continuation of the downpours that have soaked the country over the festive season. Many parts of England, Wales and Scotland remain under flood alerts, and some areas are expected to see as much as 33mm (1.3ins) of rain falling today. However, the start of 2013 is set to bring better news, as the weeks of heavy rain give way to cloud, dull skies and light showers.
12.40 Dancers take part in parade in Bali, Indonesia
(EPA)
12.31 Indian revellers celebrate in Amritsar
(Getty)
12.20 In Sydney crowds are gathering for traditionally one of the most spectacular New Year's Eve fireworks displays anywhere in the world. Lord Mayor Clover Moore said about 1.5 million spectators are expected . Those in place already include Melissa Sjostedt who has made the journey from Florida to see the festivities which she first read about a decade ago in National Geographic magazine.
12.05 Meanwhile Malcolm Moore, our Beijing correspondent, reminds us that the Chinese New Year - when the Year of the Dragon gives way to the Year of the Snake - takes place on February 9. Those who want to celebrate the western calendar are having to dig deep with the city's finest restaurants offering special menus at up to £150 a head.
12.00 Special cause for celebration at Myanmar - or Burma to you and me - where the country will see in the New Year with a grand fireworks display in a celebration unprecedented in the former military-ruled country.
Thousands were expected to attend the celebration at a large field in Yangon against the backdrop of the city's famed Shwedagon Pagoda, where the Myanmar public will get its chance to do what much of the world does every New Year's Eve.
Preparations for Myanmar's New Year celebrations (Reuters)
11.56 People take part in the celebrations under the Harbour Bridge
(Getty)
11.50 Celebrations are already underway in Sydney, where fireworks are lighting up the city's skyline for the 9pm family show
(Reuters)
11.30 In Pakistan Rob Crilly, our correspondent reports, the celebrations are being held amid tight security. He adds: "Pakistanis are sending their 2013 text message greetings several hours early in case the country's mobile phone networks are turned off later to prevent mobile phones being used to detonate bombs.
11.15 The Indian armed forces on Monday cancelled their New Year celebrations while many hotels and bars scaled back parties in the wake of the gang-rape which has shocked the nation.
The Indian army, air force and navy have decided to cancel all the parties
planned to welcome the new year. They want to dedicate the last day of the
year to the gang-rape victim," a senior defence ministry official told
AFP.
In the capital, where the horrific crime took place on December 16, leading private members' club Gymkhana, where top officials and ministers are often seen, cancelled its party as did the Press Club in the capital.
The five-star Ashoka hotel in New Delhi also closed its popular nightclub, while other bar owners were quoted in the media as saying they were scaling back festivities.
A student prays during a vigil in Ahmedabad (Reuters)
11.10 In Auckland the celebrations are well underway with Kiwis being serenaded by "Legendary New Zealand funk rockers Supergroove" - no I haven't heard of them either.
11.00 Welcome to the Telegraph's Live Blog as we brace ourselves for 2013.
Athens Greece
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